westernrvparkowner wrote:
NJRVer wrote:
fulltimedaniel wrote:
westernrvparkowner wrote:
fulltimedaniel wrote:
westernrvparkowner wrote:
Cambodia, widely considered the benchmark for business practices. Those business practices has allowed Cambodia to rise to 186th in the world when ranking per capita gross domestic product. According to the most recent statistics from the world bank, Cambodians earn a whopping $1040 per capita while Americans contribute a meager $55,980 per person to the 15th ranked US economy.
I must admit, chasing people with machetes is not currently part of my customer service repertoire, but I am willing to adapt to the best practices.
Of course RVPO History,the Khmer Rouge, Colonization and effectively being the Poland of SE Asia has nothing to do with their present economic standing in the world I suppose??
And I really would appreciate a careful re-reading of that post so you can see how you mangled the entire horrible attack that took place upon one of my employees. To make fun of and mock such a tragedy is really the lowest point to which you have gone.
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(Poland: invaded by countries/armies from both sides over centuries and used as a pawn in every major war) Thus the comparison to Cambodia.
Poland is number 68 on the list. Poles produce income at approximately 27 times the rate Cambodians do. The Khmer Rouge was an internal, civil struggle. Not an invasion from an outside country.
Unlike Cambodia, machete attacks on employees are rare in the US. I doubt any company, large or small in America has a health plan designed around employees being attacked by machete wielding gangs. An employee benefit built around care after machete attacks would likely not be considered a major inducement to attracting quality employees in the US. For that matter, a bonus of a scooter given for long and loyal service would probably equally be scorned by US employees. All the experience you claim to draw on to defend your position that US RV parks are poorly managed is immaterial to the USA in general. Maybe you should consider becoming a park consultant in Cambodia, because I seriously doubt you skill set and business experience will earn you a living do so in the US.
When will you stop riding this hobby horse?
As I told you earlier in a PM I would gladly discuss this with you and give you proof. I gave you my email...Your response was...Don't bother you wouldnt read it and it would go to spam.
So that begs the question...why do you continue with this?
Any injury or trauma would be covered by any health plan I know of in the US. So your point is lost on me.
What may be most amusing is that you seem to think it easier to go to a foreign country like Cambodia or Thailand and start a business than it is to run one here where everyone speaks your language and you can read the script of the language? That's very interesting. While there IS less regulation of some things, the challenges are far beyond what most people have the guts to take on or are too risk averse for.
Nor did I say anywhere or ever claim that all RV parks are poorly managed. In fact a percentage are but I have no idea what that percentage is.
My Business experience in the USA extends from my Family Business in trucking which was moving and storage with offices from Sol Cal to North Carolina...so I grew up in a business and worked in it.(and inherited it)
In the USA I have owned (or been partner) in My own Trucking Company, A Temporary Help Company (ECA Engineering Corp of America)specializing in Engineering, Software Engineers, Designers, Tech Writers etc, I was Partnership in a Graphic Design Business and in the early 80's President and CEO of a Natl Association of Temporary Employees. I was also partnered with a company that did Management Seminars to CEO's and their staffs. These were often Major corporations. Not only did I often Give the seminars I helped develop them. I have also consulted to IBM, TRW and NASA (for which I was part of a design team to do Ground support Equipment for the Space Shuttle)as well as Boeing and Honeywell among others. (some of the above were done concurrently with others)
I think I can safely say that my business experience here in the US and in Cambodia after I retired (at 53) are sufficient to have an informed opinion on the Subject of Business.
Now that I have explained myself much more in detail than most would have on this site would you please drop this argument? We disagree. You think I am lying and have called me that and that's ok. So I will not convince you. But your posts are edging very close to crossing a line that should not be crossed.
I would like nothing better than to have a civil conversation with you as I have said before and remain open to that. But this line of discussion must stop.
Now please lets get back to the topic and leave this behind. If you disagree with me so virulently I suggest you block me.
OK western Park owner, looks like FTD put his cards on the table.
So what is the name of your RV park that you run?
Surely you don't believe his ridiculously pompous resume. I mean he ran hotels in Cambodia, paid all his employee's medical bills, consulted with NASA on the space shuttle, owned a transcontinental trucking company, ran a graphic design business, was national president of some temporary employee organization. I bet if he pontificated on we would find he tutored Mother Teresa on how to become a saint, probably led the negotiations that got Bishop Tutu released from the South African jail and is the top investment advisor to Warren Buffett. I am surprised he is workamping in Alaska, I would think by now Malaysia and China would have reached out seeking his expertise to find Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
Maybe I just see the world a little differently than Mr. FTD. If I was a janitor at NASA I wouldn't consider myself part of the team that developed ground support for the Space shuttle, but i suppose it could be considered a true statement. If I answered one of those pop-up surveys on line about whether or not I would ever consider buying an IBM Thinkpad or getting TRW's credit monitoring service I wouldn't consider myself being a consultant for those companies, but again, that is technically a true statement. If I sold widgets I wouldn't say I was a consultant to each and every one of companies I sold to, but that would also be a true statement if I really wanted to stretch the truth to it's breaking point. And if I agreed to use my pickup to transport a friend's sofa from LA to Baltimore I guess I could say I was in the transcontinental trucking business. But for Mr. FTD to actually have been involved in all he says he was at the level he implies, it simply isn't possible.
Whenever someone puts "their cards on the table" and there are 7 aces something isn't quit right.
Just before the first launch of the Space Shuttle I worked for a company called Aero-GO in Seattle WA we were contracted to Boeing/NASA to make a 3 story steel structure that rode on air bearings and it's companion structure. These were used in the VAB to load the Cargo Bay of the Shuttle. The largest of the structures had 3 stories of catwalks and platforms and an elaborate mechanical arm system (designed by another firm) that held the payloads in place.
ONE man could move this 220KlB structure (with payloads) with a small "tractor" that ran on one large wheel and was powered by air pressure. Attached with a solid connection to the structure. this tractor was operated by a joystick and could be walked behind. The entire thing had to operate in a clean room environment. I was responsible for the steel structure base (2) and the design of the tractor and its mounting to the structure. I most assuredly was not the janitor. We had several subcontractors around the country the biggesst was in Florida and I made regular trips to all of these to make sure that everything would fit together and work as promised. It was also my responsibility to write the Hurricane contingency plan (what needed to be done if while we were assembling the structures at Nasa a hurricane struck and the safety plan. There was of course a lot more to this than the above very limited description.
I can give a short report like the one above for every single thing I have mentioned about myself in this forum. It is all true.
Why did I go to Cambodia you might ask? In the fall of 2005 I was diagnosed with stage 4 head and neck cancer. After several smaller surgeries and one that lasted 9 1/2 hours, 7 weeks of intensive Chemo and Radiation and a short recovery, too short my doctor said, I returned to work...it was a terrible mistake and I soon realized it. I just couldn't take this rat race any longer it had changed me. I needed to get away.
Any way I retired at 53 and went to open what I thought would be a small guesthouse in a SE ASian Beach Resort. As per my usual workaholic self I ended up with a much larger boutique hotel and several other businesses. Why so many businesses? In a country like Cambodia or any similar you never want to rely on one income stream. It's just not smart. Too much can go wrong and go south. In 2010 I sold the hotel and the rest of the businesses in 2013 and returned here to the US. I have the visas in my old passport and have offered to show them to WRVPO...
A word on Engineering consulting. It is basically temporary work during a project in which a company brings on engineers and designers and others who have special experience in certain fields. When a company get a large contract they rarely have the staff needed to perform that contract on time and rarely do they have all of the expertise. It is incredibly common. It is done in Construction, Civil Engineering and all other disciplines it is a multi Billion Dollar industry in this country.
Yes I am sorry to break it to you WRVPO but every word of my pompous resume is true. I have never been a guy satisfied to do one thing at a time. (The problem is WRVPO is commenting on some industries he knows nothing about. And drawing conclusions about me out of ignorance.)
To those of you reading this: I offered more than once via PM and email to give the details of my work history to WRVPO who DECLINED the offer. He doesnt want the truth. Why? It means I might just be right.
